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Frisyren
Oct 29, 2012Aspirant
Lost permissions to ReadyNAS Duo
Hi After my clean install of Mountain Lion on my iMac I lost permissions to both delete and add content on my ReadyNAS Duo (where my music collection is stored together with some other files). Ye...
StephenB
Nov 08, 2012Guru - Experienced User
Well, yes and no. Windows PCs at least will present the windows login to the NAS by default, and if that logon succeeds you will not get a logon prompt. So it is common to coordinate the NAS username/password with the Windows one. Another option here is to use the Windows Credential Manager to set the credentials for the NAS logon.
Flash wrote: I might be misunderstanding, but the username you use to login to your computers has no effect on the NAS. What matters is the username/password you type in when mounting the NAS. This username is setup on the NAS in Frontview under Security.
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